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• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  is that when i initially wrote this i didn't realize that allison hadn ... actual point is that I’m unfamiliar with snow and ice. So when my ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  ones, but I figured that I’d need them in a small college dorm. They also ... (everyone in my room stays up pretty late, and almost everything I do is ... to school for lunch most days, and I figured I’d try doing that in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much ... allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  a run, Elli and I hide in the air conditioning, and later that ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint ... which had no copies of Shank1. What's known about Shank1 is that it's a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until ... group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found ... 's response. I WANT IT. (My birthday is January 10th.) Right now I'm supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  , though. For one, I have a UROP (a research job) that’s in a field totally ... in your major, or even technical. I also do quite a bit of music in ... packs of gum because I mentioned that the kind you had in your backpack

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  just talk about what made me happy. Let's do that. I had a slightly ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  that their children could have a fraction of the opportunities I do ... , “What are you doing tonight?” I quickly pack a pair of outfits in my ... ="While expressing gratitude is a part of Thanksgiving, I want to make sure we don

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and ... interest in genetics and bio for me as a career path, so to that I owe it ... that I have a minor platform, I finally have a place to share my awful

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  you push a button: http://xeaphyr.tumblr.com/post/150788176669/i-made-a-teeny-computer-count-in-hexadecimal and now we're making a car alarm system that ticks some timers and ... ):   this class is eating my life. i hate it. i love it. it sucks. it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux" from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... ." I think honking is a sacred activity and this sort of socially

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  think it's a fact of college life. nor do i dispute the fact that ... chancellor's website states that "Everything we do at MIT is informed by data ... "concerns about illegal drug use." i also found it unsettling that a low four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended ... ) class participation. If that sounds like a lot, in some respects I guess

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  've mentioned this in passing a few times, but I thought that now we have the ... let you do your p-sets, but once in a while I've gotten to talking to ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... picture to describe the awesomeness that was CPW. I can soooo do this ... ]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... was determined to prove that I actually did have a good essay in there ... and activities, the applicant pool is so large that a difference in 10

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  information) Concourse "is a small learning community that offers an innovative ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit different from the rest of the FLCs in that what they offer is less about

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  soda. I think Senior Haus is going to hold a sushi bar sometime in August ... goths to nerdy goths. I dressed similar to what I often do in normal life ... add my trench coat to that getup. I had a lot of fun. Frequently, when

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005